University Enterprise Research Articles

Impact of Employees’ Attitudes and Leader’s Role on the Innovation Management Linked to Social Responsibility

Purpose: The innovation management linked to social responsibility is considered a strategy of organizational growth promoted by the creativity of employees framed in economic, ethical and legal issues. This study analyses socially responsible innovation management base on employee’s attitudes and leader’s role, from a case study of a company in the Colombian automotive sector.Methodology/Approach: We began with the review of theories about innovation and social responsibility. Then we collected data through creative techniques, surveys to classify the leader’s role, attitudes scale, participant observation and interviews. To finally analyse data with multiple linear regression and other techniques, such as decision trees.Findings: Finally, the initial concept of socially responsible innovation and its management is complemented by five self-determined employees’ attitudes, and one behavior and three perceptions of the leader.Research Limitation/implication: The choice of the single case study as a research strategy determines the practical scope of the research as analytical. In this sense, the need to replicate the study and analyse the impact of other personal and organizational factors is highlighted.Originality/Value of paper: It is important to summarise the value of our paper, in relation to the following aspects: the opportunity that represents for companies the correct socially responsible innovation management, the importance of the Enterprise–University integration and, finally, the relevance of hybrid models in this case, a multiple linear regression and decision trees.

The effect of university–industry collaboration policy on universities’ knowledge innovation and achievements transformation: based on innovation chain

Based on the measurement of policies issued at ministerial and provincial levels in China, this research studied the effect of the university–industry collaboration policy (UIC policy) on universities’ knowledge innovation and achievement transformations. Using the panel data from universities in 30 provinces from 2000 to 2013, we examined the effects of UIC policy on two sources’ R&D input (enterprise–university collaboration input and government–university collaboration input), knowledge output and the achievement of transformation at different stages of the innovation chain. The results showed that the UIC policy had a significantly positive effect on both enterprise–university collaboration input and government–university collaboration input. The relationship between the UIC policy and the knowledge output, and the relationship between the UIC policy and the achievement transformation, were an inverted U-shape. For universities that were mainly engaged in enterprise–university collaboration actives, the UIC policy had a threshold effect on the interactive relationship between government–university collaboration input and enterprise–university collaboration input.

Research choice: Pragmatism in conducting research about university enterprise collaboration in the Vietnamese context

Research choice: Pragmatism in conducting research about university enterprise collaboration in the Vietnamese context

PRECONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN UKRAINE

The article is analyzed the existing innovation potential of enterprises in Ukraine in the light of international ratings. It is shown that its level is quite sufficient for the development of technological entrepreneurship and the formation of entrepreneurial ecosystems. At the same time, in Ukraine there is no effective state policy that contributes to the formation of an innovative business infrastructure. Financial, tax, credit incentives for the development of innovation and technology transfer are not working. Mechanisms of protection of intellectual property are inefficient. The system of supporting venture financing is not developing; there are no incentives for attracting private business funds to carry out research and development. Certain structural elements of the innovation system exist, for example, technoparks, venture companies and others, but they are a set of rather heterogeneous elements and therefore generally do not play a significant role in the implementation of innovative projects. The main guidelines of the State and regional policy should be: improvement of legislation in the field of innovative entrepreneurship and mechanisms for its financing, encouraging the opening of small innovative enterprises in universities, the formation of new infrastructure components of the innovation system, in particular, services to promote innovative products to international markets; development of investment and management consulting institutes in the sphere of innovative entrepreneurship, stimulation of stable demand for high-tech products and on the innovative companies with all their developments and intellectual property.

Public criminology, reflexivity and the enterprise university: Experiences of research, knowledge transfer work and co-option with police forces

This article reflects on an enterprise project which aimed to build partnerships with police forces in England. In attempting to do ‘public criminology’ we had to negotiate internal and external organizational cultures, public management and ‘audit culture’. We focus on two levels of co-option we experienced during the project, by the university and the police: (1) internal university pressures such as definitions of ‘research’ and ‘enterprise’, funding and the terms of the ‘contract’ of the project; and (2) external pressures when engaging with police that included new public management principles and ‘fast academia’. The discussion draws on data from field notes and interviews with police officers and staff.

Rendering the paradoxes and pleasures of academic life: using images, poetry and drama to speak back to the measured university

ABSTRACTMeasurement of academic work has become more significant than the intellectual, pedagogical, cultural, political and social practices in which academics and students engage. This shifting emphasis creates paradoxes for academics. They experience a growing sense of disconnection between their desires to develop students into engaged, disciplined and critical citizens and the activities that appear to count in the enterprise university. As measurement discourses preclude the possibilities of human emotion and hinder intellectual labour, we embarked on an arts-informed research project that established new creative spaces for our colleagues to illustrate the pleasures and paradoxes of their academic work. In the research project, we developed critical pedagogies through art and poetry that enabled academics to speak back to university management – and each other – about how they experience their work. In this paper, we draw upon poststructural ‘micro-physics’ of power, the poststructuralist ‘politics of reinscription’, and art, poetry and drama as critical pedagogies to interrogate the potential of arts-informed research to speak back to the measured university. The key contribution of this article is to recommend arts-informed methodologies as a forum for dissent and resistance at a time when the spaces of collegiality, pleasure and democracy in the measured university are under attack.

Design and Development of a Portable Metal Chip Baler using A System Design Approach

A large amount of metal chips at workplace will result in untidy and unsafe condition thus measurements of safety are needed in some industries, where the metal chips will be collected and put into a container until the volume is sufficient to be recycled. Due to that reason, the metal chips require a lot of spaces for storage before going to recycle. In this study, a portable metal chip baler as a device for compacting those metal chips is presented based on a system approach of engineering design. Basically, the system design evolves through four phases of development that are started from conceptual design, preliminary system design, detail design and development to system test and evaluation. The portable metal chip baler uses current technology such as pneumatic cylinder to compress the metal chips so that the system capable to operate efficiently. The output from this system is the metal chips are compacted into a block shape and a working prototype was developed to prove the concept of the system. As a summary, the conceptual design of portable metal chip baler was proven and was presented using the philosophy of the systems design approach. This tool may assists workers especially in the Small-Medium Enterprise (SME) manufacturing industries, school or universities’ workshops for managing metal chips easily and systematically.

Оценка культуры предпринимательского университета с помощью модели Р. Гоффи и Г. Джонса «Куб двойное С»

In work the possibility of an assessment of organizational culture of enterprise university by the model "A cube double C" of R. Goffi and G. Jones's is investigated. Selection of respondents consisted of 50 teaching staff of faculties of management and economy of the Nizhny Novgorod campus of Higher School of Economics: 31 women and 19 men; 5 professors, 27 associate professors and 18 senior teachers. Diagnostics like organizational culture was carried out by means of R. Goffi and G. Jones's questionnaire, studying of resistance to the changes which are carried out in higher education institution — by means of an author's questionnaire. In a research it is revealed that the Nizhny Novgorod campus of Higher School of Economics has communal type of culture that conforms to requirements of enterprise university; one of the psychological reasons of resistance of teachers to the changes which are carried out to the organizations is their discrepancy to the academic values; the weak organizational culture of a campus causes resistance to the carried-out organizational changes. The research has shown that the model of organizational culture "A cube double C" is the adequate tool of an assessment of culture of enterprise university.

HEAT AND SOUND INSULATING MATERIAL MANUFACTURED WITH THE USING OF VEGETAL RESOURCES

The investigating results are given for the technology of the low density flexible fiber material on base of the mineral fiber with the using of vegetal resources. The quantity of the vegetal material (flax fiber) effect on the density and flexibility of the material prepared by means of aerating deposition was examined, as well as the influence of both the vegetal-based binding and surfacing on the general properties of the flexible heat-insulating material was studied. The adjusting of the operational parameters to the production of the materials at the experimental-industrial equipment was described for the subdivision of Federal State University Enterprise «All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Naterials» in the town of Voskresensk. On base of the investigating results the compositions and technological principles for the low-density heat and sound insulating fiber material production were developed. Ill. 2. Ref. 15. Tab. 4.

Research on the Influencing Factors of Enterprise Collaborative Innovation

This article analyzes the current status of research on the first domestic. Through the research show like research and analysis of the characteristics of collaborative innovation, the research uses the factor analysis method to verify the 4 factors. Results show that the factor analysis of the 4 factors can be found divided into 2 categories. Based on the collaboration between government and schools, University Enterprise Cooperation Committee to promote mode, build research and development entities pattern of Building Research Institute, subject project group or combination model, and different forms of IUR cooperative innovation mode, industry university research institute alliance participants cooperation willingness and cooperation intensity is different, thus IUR Institute Alliance collaborative innovation will be different.

CARACTERIZAÇÃO DAS COOPERAÇÕES INTERINSTITUCIONAIS NO ESTADO DO PARANÁ: UMA ANÁLISE SOB A ÓTICA DAS UNIVERSIDADES

A presente pesquisa buscou caracterizar as cooperações em que a universidade se constitui em uma das partes envolvidas e, em especial, os relacionamentos nos moldes Universidade-Empresa (U-E), Universidade-Universidade (U-U) e Universidade-Institutos de Pesquisa (U-IP). Na pesquisa, de natureza descritiva, foram empregados métodos de natureza qualitativa e quantitativa. Constatou-se que parte significativa do referencial disponível a respeito desse tema ainda está centrada nas relações entre universidades e empresas. Para os itens que compõem as dimensões de facilitadores, dificultadores, motivadores e determinantes da cooperação interinstitucional, verificou-se que existem diferenças de acordo com o tipo de parceiro com o qual as instituições acadêmicas se envolvem. Observou-se, ainda, que cada tipo de interação possui determinadas especificidades com relação ao instrumento contratual que norteia a cooperação. Outra constatação concerne à predominância de pesquisas conjuntas na área de ciências exatas. Uma vez identificados os fatores que interferem nas cooperações interinstitucionais, sugere-se, como potencial pesquisa futura, avaliar a contribuição de cada fator por intermédio das técnicas de regressão quantílica.

Small Innovative Enterprises of Universities

The article analyzes the formation and operation of small innovative enterprises, established by Russian universities in the context of the technology platforms program, implemented in Russia and based on the experience of the developed countries. Facilitating the commercialization of university research activities by providing them with the right to set up small innovative businesses is a new phenomenon for Russia. This state program has been implemented since 2010 with legal and financial support from the government, the goal being the cooperation between universities, academic and industrial research institutions with industry. Established by universities, small enterprises are to serve as a link between research carried out at universities and manufacturers of innovative products; besides, the university innovative enterprises are to shift scientific products into innovative production. Taking the statistics of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the experts’ analysis as the basis for the research, the authors consider the challenges of setting up a university innovative enterprise, their non-uniform geographic distribution, excessive dependence on the state budget, insufficient involvement in the competitive market environment, serious bureaucratic and financial obstacles to their productive functioning. A large-scale study, carried out by the authors, shows that, in general, from 2011 to 2015 the performance of university innovative enterprises did not become profitable and what’s more, a third of them had to declare bankruptcy. The article considers the reasons for the failure of university innovative enterprises to meet the expectations entrusted by their founders, as well as it considers their development potential.

The views of Alumni Entrepreneurs on University Enterprise Education

Whilst there have been many studies of entrepreneurship programmes looking at self efficacy and other outputs, including activities from courses to boot-camps and mentoring schemes, what is lacking is an attempt to understand what activities and experiences have shaped the formation of successful alumni entrepreneurs from the many activities they potentially could have taken part in during their university career, such as on curricular, off curricular and activities undertaken voluntarily in students free time unrelated to their university education from a backward looking perspective. This work is an attempt to understand from the alumni perspective which activities they considered prepared them best for being an entrepreneur. This would allow universities then to focus on measures which were proving to be most successful allowing provision to be more cost effective.

A Study on the Competency Enhancement of University-Industry Cooperation by Analysis of Enterprise Demand and University Competency

A Study on the Competency Enhancement of University-Industry Cooperation by Analysis of Enterprise Demand and University Competency

WAYS TO IMPROVE THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFER EFFICIENCY

The challenges facing the domestic economy in the conditions of the third industrial revolution predict enhancing the capacity for the development and implementation of modern principles of organizational and technological nature. Study of the interaction between universities, administrative authorities and the business is currently hampered by the lack of empirical data and the difficulty in organizing this process. The paper traced the evolution of the classical university in research institution and identifies signs of an enterprising university. The paper provides definitions of university technology transfer process. A version of establishing external links between a university and regional business is described. The ways of implementing the innovation strategy of the University and a mechanism to optimize the management structure of the university in order to reduce financial costs for the maintenance of the innovation infrastructure are described. For the normal functioning of an innovation system of the university it is necessary to allocate the infrastructure innovation in a separate unit with its own income and expenses balance. To efficiently manage its performance it is necessary to select an indicator based on the intellectual capital sales revenue to encourage its increase. The independent activities of an innovation infrastructure of the university has a positive effect on the overall functioning of the university and its place in the universities ranking.

Functions and Main Directions of Development of the Integrated Educational-Industrial Complex “College—University—Enterprise”

Structural and functional stability of college, university and industry integration in regional system of professional education is achieved through the creation of common educational-industrial space. The leading approach to the study of this problem is an integrative approach which allows predicting the transition of the integrated system “college—university—enterprise” on the qualitatively new level due to the agreed goals, tasks, functions, and actions of this system subjects, contributing to the implementation of forward-looking professional training of competitive specialists. The main functions of the development of the integrated educational-industrial complex “college—university—enterprise” in the article are indicated as follows: coordinating, prognostic, anticipatory, consolidating, corporate, sublimating. The article submissions represent a theoretical value to researchers concerned with integration issues, and also have practical significance for subjects of the integrated system of “education—production” in order to prepare specialists meeting the requirements of modern production.

The Quest for Global Competitiveness: Promotion of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Universities in Singapore

The economy of Singapore has been continuously reforming since its independence. In the late 1980s, the economy of Singapore depended heavily on the vibrant manufacturing sector formed by foreign direct investment and multinational companies. This article critically reviews the policies and reform measures adopted by the Singapore government in the last two decades. These measures were employed to transform its university sector and drive them to engage in the promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship through partnership with the industry and business for innovation and technological advancement. The analysis reveals the uniqueness of the Singapore model in strengthening university–enterprise cooperation to achieve the national goal of promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.

The When and Why: Student Entrepreneurial Aspirations

Although connections between university enterprise courses and entrepreneurial activity have been examined, less work has investigated the intended timing of future entrepreneurial activities. Using data from a survey of .. business students, it is found that those intending to enter entrepreneurship right away place less emphasis on avoiding stress and responsibility, seeing themselves as natural leaders. They were also more confident of succeeding, but not because of superior knowledge. A greater emphasis on entrepreneurial activities in all institutional environments, including the corporate, may help balance the need to harness enthusiasm while it lasts with the need to acquire relevant experience.

AQUA-TNET thematic network: an 18-year chronicle of development and achievement in European aquaculture education

The long-running higher education network AQUA-TNET, a tightly-knit collaboration of university departments, research institutes and other stakeholders from the aquaculture industry, was established in 1996 by AQUATT, a coordinating partner in the SOCRATES-ERASMUS Thematic Network DEMETER led by ICA (Association for European Life Sciences Universities). Later, AQUA-TNET activities continued under an umbrella organisation, the AFANET Thematic Network. Previous work on accreditation in European aquaculture courses carried out by AQUA-TNET’s first coordinator, the UETP (University Enterprise Training Partnership) AQUATT enabled the fledging network of 15 partners to publish details of aquaculture courses in all its 15 member countries and to focus on issues soon to be raised as part of the emergent Bologna Process (1999). AQUA-TNET’s ground-breaking work in educational reforms led to its steady expansion, with the result that in 2005 it was established as a stand-alone ERASMUS Thematic Network. Its achievements from 2005 to 2011 under the coordination of Gent University (Belgium) and from 2011 to 2014 of the University of Stirling (UK), demonstrate the incremental impact of AQUA-TNET’s long-term activities. AQUA-TNET played a leading co-operative role between higher education institutions, further education providers, research institutions and industry, defining and developing a high-quality European dimension within its academic disciplines. Activities included contributions to Bologna priorities such as student and staff mobility (M.Sc. and Ph.D. online portals detailing all members’ courses); development of innovative M.Sc., Ph.D., HE/VET and Lifelong Learning (LLL) programmes; organisation of hands-on workshops on new technologies (e-learning, ICT); identification of flexible pathways for lifelong learners (EQF and ECVET); developing diversified language learning for HE; excellent online forum ( www.aquatnet.com ) disseminating comprehensive information to all stakeholders, including industry.

Academic Work Cultures: Somatic Crisis in the Enterprise University

Research carried out in Australia, the UK, USA, and Europe over the last decade or so has clearly shown that large numbers of academics are stressed, anxious, depressed, overloaded, and demoralised (Barcan 2013; Burrows 2012; Court & Kinman 2008; Ditton 2009; Gill 2010; Hil 2012; Lynch 2010; Sparkes 2007; Tytherleigh et al. 2007; Watson 2010). Many are suffering from insomnia, feelings of guilt, insecurity, anger, loss, failure and disorientation, have been diagnosed with mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, and have experienced physical illnesses related to workplace stress. In a 2002 survey of 8,732 Australian university staff, Winefield, Gillsespie, Stough, Dua and Hapuarachchi found that approximately 50% of those interviewed were at risk of psychological illness, compared to 19% of the Australian population overall (2002a: 8). There is little doubt that in the decade since this study was published, the situation has worsened. A recent (2014) Guardian survey of academics with mentalhealth problems (from Vice Chancellors to PhD candidates) from the UK, Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australasia, found that 80% of the more than 2,500 respondents suffer from anxiety and 75% from depression, and that 77% have been prescribed medication. Moreover, almost half (49%) of the respondents claim that they had not experienced mental health problems prior to working in academia. That we are now surrounded by what British sociologist Professor Roger Burrows describes as a ‘deep affective somatic crisis’ which threatens to engulf us (2012: 356), a crisis which may